Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Number Puzzle 1-20

The idea to create a huge number puzzle came from a friend of mine. She is a school psychologist and she is working with a kindergarten teacher that is looking for new fun ways to teach her students about numbers and the different ways that number can be represented. This got me thinking about what I could do to help! So I created a HUGE floor puzzle that uses numbers 1-20. Each number is represented in six different ways. ( the number, number word, tallys, tens frame, organized pictures, and non organized pictures) All six ways a number can be represented align with the common core for Kindergarten.

My whole class worked on this puzzle and had a great time organizing it! After all of the puzzle pieces were organized and put together, I of course took pictures but I also put them into seperate baggies. I ended up with 4 different bags. One bag for numbers 1-5, 6-10, 11-15 and 16-20. This way the pieces stay somewhat oragnized :) Also, you dont want to be giving students numbers 16-20 if they really need work on numbers 1-10.

The students in my class had a BLAST putting this puzzle together. This was a center during math centers; this way every student got to help put it together! :)